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Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. the Corporate Takeover of Public Education

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. the Corporate Takeover of Public Education

Thomas, P. L.

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General Education

ISBN10: 1617357839
ISBN13: 9781617357831
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Mar 9 2012
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education examines the divide between a commitment to public education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in the context of the following: the historical and conflicting purposes in public education--how schools became positivistic/behavioral in our quest to produce workers for industry; the accountability era--how A Nation at Risk through NCLB have served corporate interest in dismantling public education and dissolving teachers unions; the media and misinformation about education; charter schools as political/corporate compromise masking poverty; demonizing schools and scapegoating teachers--from misusing the SAT to VAM evaluations of teachers; rethinking the purpose of schools--shifting from schools as social saviors to addressing poverty so that public education can fulfill its purpose of empowering everyone in a democracy; and reframing how we view people living in poverty--rejecting deficit views of people living in poverty and students struggling in school under the weight of lives in poverty.

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